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Author : Matthew P. Romaniello
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108497572
Focuses on the British Russia Company, revealing how commercial competition between the British and Russian empires became entangled.
Author : William A. Birdthistle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199398560
Machine generated contents note: -- Part I - Anatomy of a Fund -- 1. Purpose -- 2. Structure -- 3. Economics -- Part II - Diseases & Disorders -- 4. Fees -- 5. Soft Dollars -- 6. Fair Valuation -- 7. Late Trading -- 8. Market Timing -- 9. Selective Disclosure -- Part III - Alternative Remedies -- 10. Retirement Accounts -- 11. Target Date Funds -- 12. Exchange-Traded Funds & Alts -- 13. Money Market Funds -- Part IV - Cures -- 14. A Healthier Use of Mutual Funds
Author : Bronwen McShea
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496229083
Apostles of Empire contributes to ongoing research on the Jesuits, New France, and Atlantic World encounters, as well as on early modern French society, print culture, Catholicism, and imperialism.
Author : Richard S. Tedlow
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780061744204
Seven business innovators and the empires they built. The pre-eminent business historian of our time, Richard S. Tedlow, examines seven great CEOs who successfully managed cutting-edge technology and formed enduring corporate empires. With the depth and clarity of a master, Tedlow illuminates the minds, lives and strategies behind the legendary successes of our times: . George Eastman and his invention of the Kodak camera; . Thomas Watson of IBM; . Henry Ford and his automobile; . Charles Revson and his use of television advertising to drive massive sales for Revlon; . Robert N. Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit and founder of Intel; . Andrew Carnegie and his steel empire; . Sam Walton and his unprecedented retail machine, Wal-Mart.
Author : Bernard Porter
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300110103
A timely and provocative comparison of the British and American empires: are they alike, or are they very different beasts? The present American "empire" is often compared with the British one of yore--not surprising in view of the fact that Afghanistan and Iraq were once British imperial stamping grounds, too. But how alike are the two empires really? What are the connections between them? And what can we learn from the comparison? In this compellingly written book, a leading historian of the British empire explores these questions in depth for the first time. Bernard Porter finds that Britain and America had uncannily similar imperial histories before the present day, but that now considerable differences exist. He argues that post-2001 American imperialism is an imperialism of a different sort--a "super-imperialism" that no longer repeats British imperialism but now transcends it. Porter's comparison illuminates British imperialism, including Tony Blair's; the American version of imperialism administered under George W. Bush; and the relation of imperialism to such phenomena as capitalism, globalization, free trade, and international security. His insights are often surprising and always original and thought-provoking.
Author : Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015076277980
Author : Moritz von Brescius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108427326
A path-breaking study of national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a controversial German expedition to British India.
Author : Douglas J Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317318187
The essays in this collection examine religion, politics and commerce in Scotland during a time of crisis and turmoil. Contributors look at the effect of the Union on Scottish trade and commerce, the Scottish role in tobacco and sugar plantations, Robert Burns’s early poetry on his planned emigration to Jamaica and Scottish anti-abolitionists.
Author : George Rawlinson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 2228 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547669142
The Ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, ancient Iran Asia Minor and Armenian Highlands, the Levant, Cyprus and the Arabian Peninsula. This book covers the history of the entire region through the period of over three millennia. It brings political and cultural history of eight most important kingdoms and empires of the region: Egypt, Parthia, Chaldea, Assyria, Media, Babylon, Persia and Sasanian Empire. Content: Egypt Phoenicia Chaldea Assyria Media Babylon Persia Parthia Sasanian Empire The Kings of Israel and Judah The History of Herodotus: The Original Source
Author : Martin Thomas,Andrew Thompson
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198713197
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.
Author : H. Bowen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230390195
This book examines the cultural, economic, and social forces that shaped the development of the British empire in the eighteenth century. The empire is placed in a broad historiographical context informed by important recent work on the 'fiscal-military state', and 'gentlemanly capitalism'. This allows the empire to be seen not as a series of discrete, unconnected geographical regions scattered across the world, but as a commercial, cultural, and social body with its roots very firmly planted in metropolitan society.
Author : Samuel Parsons Scott
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 2589 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781465544667
Few countries of the globe present to the eye of the traveller so desolate, so forbidding an aspect as that vast and arid peninsula which, embracing an area of more than a million square miles, stretches away through twenty-four degrees of latitude, from the confines of the Syrian Desert to the shores of the Indian Ocean. Its surface, while far from possessing the monotonous character with which popular fancy is accustomed to invest it, is, for the greater part of its extent, destitute of those physical advantages which tempt either the cupidity or the enterprise of man. Its coasts are low and unhealthy. Its harbors are few and unsafe. Its mineral resources are to this day unexplored and unknown. Its impenetrable deserts, guarded by a fierce and martial population, have always set at defiance the best-matured plans of invasion and conquest. In the principality of Yemen, appropriately named The Happy, the cultivation of the soil has flourished from time immemorial, but in almost every other province the returns of agricultural labor are discouraging and unremunerative. Illimitable wastes of sand, over which sweeps the deadly blast of the simoom; mountains, bald, craggy, and volcanic, whose slopes are destitute of every trace of vegetable life; plains strewn with blocks of tufa and basalt; valleys dotted here and there with stunted shrubs, or encrusted with a saline deposit similar to that upon the shores of the Dead Sea; a soil impregnated with nitre; such are, and have been from prehistoric times, the physical features of the Arabian Peninsula. No stream worthy of the name of river, dispensing wealth and fertility in its winding course to the sea, flows through this dreary and inhospitable land. Wherever a spring was found, a permanent settlement arose, and the black tents of the Bedouin gave place to huts of sun-dried bricks, while the dignity of the sheik, who now aspired to the title of prince, was satisfied with a dwelling superior to those of his subjects only in point of size. The oasis, generally suggestive of shady groves and purling streams, is often, in reality, nothing more than the dry bed of a mountain torrent, along whose borders a little withered vegetation furnishes the hardy camel with pasture, and where a scanty supply of brackish water can, by laborious digging, be obtained. Overhead glitters a sky of brass, unflecked by a single cloud, and, morning and evening, the rays of the sun, mellowed and refracted by the vapors of the earth, clothe every elevation with scarlet, azure, and violet tints which, blended in exquisite harmony, rival the splendors of the rainbow; developing, under the effects of radiation, optical illusions and charming pictures of the mirage, attributed by superstitious ignorance to the influence of enchantment. The unbroken stillness of the Desert, the wide expanse of uninhabited territory, produce a sense of mental depression, accompanied by an apprehension of danger from the convulsions of nature and the violence of man, which no experience seems able to remove; affecting even the sturdy camel-driver, familiar with these solitudes from childhood, who shudders as he urges his string of panting beasts over the drifted sand-heaps and through the mountain fastness, the reputed haunt of evil genii and the vantage ground from whence the murderous banditti oft beset the caravan. So deeply-rooted and tenacious is this feeling that the Arab regards a journey successfully performed as just cause for congratulation, and indeed not inferior to a triumph, as is indicated by his familiar proverb, “Travel is a victory.”
Author : Theodore K. Rabb
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033798245
Author : Blair B. Kling
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520322356
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487536527
Writing the Empire is a collective biography of the McIlwraiths, a family of politicians, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, scientists, and scholars. Known for their contributions to literature, politics, and anthropology, the McIlwraiths originated in Ayrshire, Scotland, and spread across the British Empire, specifically North America and Australia, from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Focusing on imperial networking, Writing the Empire reflects on three generations of the McIlwraiths’ life writing, including correspondence, diaries, memoirs, and estate papers, along with published works by members of the family. By moving from generation to generation, but also from one stage of a person’s life to the next, the author investigates how various McIlwraiths, both men and women, articulated their identity as subjects of the British Empire over time. Eva-Marie Kröller identifies parallel and competing forms of communication that involved major public figures beyond the family’s immediate circle, and explores the challenges issued by Indigenous people to imperial ideologies. Drawing from private papers and public archives, Writing the Empire is an illuminating biography that will appeal to readers interested in the links between life writing and imperial history.
